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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

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Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Shoemaker
Leather
Intense
Pleasure
Words

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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.
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Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I never can understand how two men can write a book together to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
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MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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